V79 baseline · 1 June 2026 · supersedes Rev 2 v0.0 and v3 (V69)
Status: Manuscript editorially complete and clean at V79 (Rev 2 v0.0 + Paul's factcheck branch), ready for external review. No structural work remains. The critical path is now production and, when it lands, external-review feedback.
| # | Item | Description | Status |
| M2 | Ch 2 'Notice what just happened' paragraph | Restore or leave cut (Paul dropped it on Mac in V61). Decision still pending; not actioned V70–V77. | Open |
| M3 | Tempo folds (optional) | Ch 7 'What fluency feels like'; Ch 12 'A few smaller observations on dialect drift' (strongest candidate); Ch 8 'Notes, citations and a caveat' → footnote. Cosmetic, not blemishes. | Open — optional |
| M4 | Bold-dialogue device consistency | Crewe Q&A is bold-question styled. Decide whether Ch 5 recap (£16/£18.80) and Ch 13 Pret moment match it, or Crewe stays a one-off. | Open — watch |
| M5 | Open canonical questions (from V69 assessment) | CL-8 lost in restructure; CL-2 not found verbatim; CL-13 wording drift. Register flags all three. Resolve before or after review. | Open — Amber |
M1 (Stanford / hallucination case verify) — CLOSED in V70: Kohls v. Ellison + Mata v. Avianca + Moffatt v. Air Canada verified against external record.
| # | Item | Description | Status |
| P1 | ISBN — paperback, cover file | Real Nielsen 978-1-0369-9170-8 is in the manuscript copyright page. Confirm the cover artefact carries the print-ready 300dpi EAN-13 and the mock 978-1-915678-15-2 is gone, before KDP. | Manuscript done; cover swap pending — RED |
| P2 | ISBN — ebook | Second Nielsen ISBN on order (publisher of record; own ISBN per format). Add when received; then make the copyright-page ebook edit. | Pending |
| P3 | Remove review-only block before KDP | 'Who is this book for?' on the title page is review-copy only. Remove before KDP upload. Credentials line and AI-attribution stay. | RED — pre-KDP |
| P4 | HTML artefact (Option C) | Ship thin print extras + HTML artefact alongside. Carries the four extras, the June 2014 Whole Self paper, the journal artefact (lyric-copyright posture), and the working-method documents. Committed; not started. | Open |
| P5 | Front/back-matter placement | Contents Index, Who's-It-For, Inside Back Cover (photo + Scarborough story), rear-cover copy, Bibliography position. Built; place at layout. | Built; placement pending |
| P6 | Contents Index page numbers | '00' placeholders resolve at print layout. | Pending layout |
| P7 | Author photo | B&W portrait, silent on cover, story revealed inside-back. Confirm with designer at layout. | Decided; layout pending |
| P8 | Cover wording canonical | Two-tier subtitle matches title page (V68). Confirm final cover file carries it alongside the real barcode. | Aligned; confirm |
| P9 | Layout & fonts | Print interior layout and font selection. | Open |
| P10 | KDP upload mechanics | Final assembly and upload (Kindle + print-on-demand). | Open |
| P11 | Bibliography — Gartner + Klarna | Add entries for the WaaS sources introduced in V79 (Gartner 2025 agentic-AI projection; Klarna 2024 deployment), alphabetised. | Open |
| P12 | Credential sweep — cover & bio | Title page fixed (NCS removed, V79). Confirm no NCS/MNCS lingers on rear cover or About-the-Author. | Open — Amber |
✓ V70: Real Nielsen ISBN swapped into copyright page; Stanford/hallucination citations verified (Kohls, Mata, Moffatt)
✓ V71: Contents page — 15 hyperlinked chapter entries (ch_1–ch_15)
✓ V72: 'Back to Contents' footer on every page; Bowlby moved to its own page 2
✓ V73: Two Dads section — Bill Ollis lived scene (~310 words); father "at three" → "at five"; sister verification; reframe close
✓ V74: Documentary anchor — 2014 diploma-notes line ("Noticing I have 2 Dads")
✓ V75: "my own father" → "my Dad" (Ch 5); ChatGPT join date made precise (11 December 2022)
✓ V76: Title-page rebuild — credentials line, AI attribution, Who-Is-For block, Bowlby to page 2
✓ V77: Ch 4 date (Nov → Dec); Ch 10 heading → 'The Four Postures'; front-page block rewrite
✓ Rev 2 v0.0: promoted from V77 + Paul's hand-back (block re-split, bankers added, 'Mr [name held]'s fingers' cut); file clean
✓ V79: Paul's factcheck branch adopted as baseline (Frankl/Buddha hedged, WaaS→Gartner/Klarna, data-centre + paralaminar fixes)
✓ V79 credfix: lapsed NCS (Accred) removed from title-page credentials → "PGCEE · FETC (Ad.Dip)"
✓ Companion docs brought into line: Change Log (+V79 summary), this tracker, Register v1.5, Helicopter View, Artefact List, Breadcrumbs supplement
Manuscript editorially complete and clean at Rev 2 v0.0. Four manuscript items open — all optional or decisions, none blocking (one Amber: open canonical questions). Production is the live front: two RED items gate KDP (cover-file ISBN swap; remove the review-only block), plus ebook ISBN, HTML artefact, front/back-matter placement, layout, fonts, and upload. External-review feedback will iterate v0.1 onward.